12/16/2025
more eaze has announced her new album sentence structure in the country, out on Mar. 20th, 2026!
This is the debut solo record from more eaze on Thrill Jockey, and it's a marvel - a definitive statement of the matchless quality of more eaze’s skill as player and musical thinker. The album relishes the ecstatic in performance and collaboration with an inviting wit and incisive compositions, imbuing tenderness, frustration, and joy into each passage.
sentence structure in the country is available for pre-order now in digital, LP, and CD formats. The CD and mail-order exclusive clear pink LP can be found at thrilljockey.com/products/sentence-structure-in-the-country
The album will be available in indie record stores around the world on March 20th.
Along with the album's announcement, rubio has shared the album's vulnerable first single "bad friend." rubio explains how the piece came together:
"Like a lot of the songs on this album, this has sat with me for years and taken many different shapes. I couldn’t really leave this one alone. It just kept coming back in my head. I hadn’t played it in years, and then when I played Chicago with Alan Sparhawke, I made a last minute decision to come back to this song as a sort of comfort, and that opened me up to reconsidering the arrangement and form. The key for unlocking it was the pedal steel: it’s kind of about playing it in a non-traditional way, strumming it more like a normal guitar rather than using traditional pedal steel moves but the main riff of the song is built largely about idiomatic idiosyncrasies/quirks with my pedal steel and electronics setup.
"To some extent this song lyrically is about knowing you shouldn’t have romantic feelings for a friend but it’s also about not doing a very good job hanging out with people and generally feeling like an alien. Sort of about having trouble in Texas dealing with my social circles, especially the last few years I was there."
Cover by Rachel Goodyear
Photo of mari by Laura Brunisholz
